UNDERWRITE in a Sentence

Learn UNDERWRITE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for UNDERWRITE, such as:

1. No bank would be willing to underwrite such a loss.
2. Have we checked with China to see if they want to underwrite all this?
3. The government will have to create a special agency to underwrite small business loans.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNDERWRITE
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underwrite
 v.  write under something else; subscribe; assume financial responsibility for; guarantee against failure
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1  The government will have to create a special agency to underwrite small business loans.
2  No bank would be willing to underwrite such a loss.
3  Have we checked with China to see if they want to underwrite all this?
4  And we need to be careful, we need to be calibrated, we need to be proportionate, if we were to suggest some adjustments to the amount of these types of mortgages that banks should underwrite.
5  The group took on a mix of investigations and new probes into misrepresentations by securities originators and underwriters, failures to repurchase problematic loans and failures to transfer ownership of collateral into the securities in question.